Have you ever tried the smaller festivals? like Europavox in clermont Ferrand? Its organised by the same guys who run rockenseine and you do sometimes get big names playing there despite, last May Peter Hook ,xjoy division and new order, gave one hell of a concert.

The great thing about it is its done on such a small scale that the the line between the audience and the stage often gets blurred. You get to meet the artists as they run around amongst the crowd and would even get some of them playing random sets.

I don't know how i ended up on this site but thanks for the reviews and for investing so much in this, hope you understand english.